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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Best Of 2016

Here we are again, at the end of another year. Slightly off topic, but I am still astounded at the longevity of this blog. I definitely did not expect it to live this long when it started years ago, but I'm happy to keep it up and hope you're all still finding it of use. It's been a really good year for music; both with a ton of major releases and a slew of solid underground ones. There's no shortages of classics this year, so picking 50 was honestly tough.

Of course this isn't an objective "best of" list, despite the title. These are simply my personal favourite albums released this year. Please share yours with me too, I'm really curious to know what everyone's been listening to for the past 12 months. Thanks for another great year, and here's to a great 2017. Enjoy.

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

10

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

9

Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial

8

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

7

The Dirty Nil - Higher Power

6

David Bowie - Blackstar

5

Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us

4

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

3

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

2

Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo

1

Brian Fallon - Painkillers
That wraps up my 50 favourite albums of 2016. Again, it's purely based on personal favourites (thus why #1 should come as no surprise to anyone aware of my fandom). Feel free to comment your own lists of favourites, and thanks again for a great year.

21 comments:

I need to check a lot of this out... but mostly I just wanted to say that I love your blog. After a decade of my taste mostly being either indie rock and extreme metal, this year I swung back to hardcore/"emo" as my base and your posts kept me inspired all year long!

A Stubborn Reminder...

Please remember, not everything on here is supposed to be free. Enjoy to your heart's content, but if you can, please try and support these bands by purchasing records, going to shows, buying merch, anything if at all possible. Most of them could really use (and deserve) it.